Okay, so I am waiting at the airport in Washington D.C. for my connection to L.A. and this group of fat chicks converge around me at the Starbucks stand. Loud as they are, I can’t help overhearing how happy they are that everyone speaks English again and ecstatic to consume a lowcal Mocha Latte with skimmed milk. So obese and calory conscious?

I was warned never to give bigger people an obvious second look, so I just order the largest possible Green Tea Cream Latte and a ‘naturally colored’ vitamin drink called XXX. The label reads: “30 may be the new 20, but green is definitely the new black”, after which it references ‘poster girl Ms. Bradshaw’. Isn’t it cool how you can drag a totally unrelated fashion phenomena into your marketing strategy? Yep, that’s America for ya…